Quotes About Consumption

We are 5 percent of the global population and consume a third of the total resources - on some level we should all feel guilty relative to the world.

The rich pay more in total taxes now than ever before - ever. It's true. Just like it's true that when the rich are convinced they're going to be taxed more, they spend less. And when the top few percenters don't spend, there goes all your spending, because they account for half of all retail spending.

We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also plastic. If plastic vanished, there would be total chaos. We have to think quite carefully about using oil and its derivatives, because it's not going to be around forever.

People say, 'Well you know the economy's bad, so China consumption will be low. No, totally different. You Americans love to spend tomorrow's money, and other people's money maybe... We Chinese love to save money.

Television is a possum with a tapeworm, she thought; always hungry and it'll feed on any garbage.

How can [Germany] be criticized for making things that people actually want to buy? And why encourage Germans to buy things they don't need with money they don't have?

They just had to eat it,

Anxiety eats into the soul and hollows people out from the inside. It also feeds on human time

Uno degli obiettivi del sistema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

Come si possono portare i consumi all'infinito? Il meccanismo è costruito su tre leve che sono la pubblicità che ci fa desiderare qualcosa, rendendoci insoddisfatti di ciò che abbiamo; il credito, che ci permette di acquistare qualcosa anche se non abbiamo il denaro necessario; e la cosiddetta obsolescenza programmata che ci impone di rinnovare il consumo perché il mercato offre oggetti costruiti per durare sempre meno.

Uno degli obiettivi del sitema [attuale] è di creare bisogni da soddisfare producendo nuovi beni a titolo di riparazione, compensazione o consolazione

La sociedad de lo sucedáneo os seguirá utilizando como máquinas, alimentando como máquinas, controlando como máquinas, haciendo currar como máquinas, y se deshará de vosotros, como máquinas, cuando ya no podáis manteneros en estado de funcionamiento».

Cet empire du jetable finit par toucher l'homme lui-même, dont on peut se demander si, au terme du processus, il n'est pas devenu obsolète à son tour.

Cannibals love Domino's Pizza. Not for the pizza, but for the delivery guy.

I know they are naught things, but I devour novels." (p. 57).

and my job is to eat the whole car of my anger, part by part, some parts ground down to steel-dust.

I have eaten brains, my tongue loves to probe the delicate folds

O say can you see him as I see him now, as if he had no one to answer to, he so prepared to devour and excrete the hopes he'd been handed on a platter, the spoon in his mouth, he could eat what he had not earned, he could do it in his sleep.

Food should come from the place of its origin, and stay there. It shouldn't spend its time crisscrossing the globe for the sake of profit.

We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

I buy digital music off of iTunes all the time. I Shazam something in an airport or in a club or something; I Shazam it, I buy it. I am fully digital.

Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

A garden has a curious innocent way of consuming cash while all the time you are under the illusion that you are spending nothing.